Text taken from the V Kontakte age of Reports from the New Russia militia.
[VK] 05.21.24. A note from the Military Informant channel.
Usually, when a conversation begins about the possible combat use of nuclear weapons, many people immediately begin to imagine pictures of vast territories, where dosimeters begin to make loud noise, and people quickly die from radiation sickness, etc. But what if we look at reality?
The USA and USSR have accumulated a large amount of data on explosions of various nuclear devices of different powers under different conditions. Therefore, it is possible to reliably simulate the radiation consequences of the use of any nuclear weapon. For example, destroying some particularly strong underground target, the task is simple.
Let's assume that we are simulating the consequences of the arrival of a "Dagger" with a nuclear warhead on some General Cloutier in a bunker somewhere in the thickness of the Carpathian rocks. Fortunately, everything was done before us and a long time ago.
We open the American work "Countering Proliferation, or Compounding It?" and look at the schedule for nuclear bombs to destroy bunkers. The principle is the same, it will do.
Vertically, the contaminated area in which, within 48 hours, a person continuously outside sealed capital buildings or protective structures will receive a dose level of 150 Rem (Roentgen equivalent man - the Russian analogue is the Biological equivalent of X-rays, Rem) or higher. 100-200 rem received in a short period of time is the dose at which a mild form of radiation sickness usually occurs.
Horizontal depth of charge detonation. And three graphs of the dependence of the contamination area on the depth: for charges of 0.3, 1 and 10 kilotons (kt), respectively. The maximum area of such radioactive contamination at 0.3 kt is only 10 sq km, for 1 kt no more than 30 sq km, and for 10 kt less than 170 sq km. These are maximum, and at the same time, still very moderate numbers. And very far from apocalyptic expectations.
At the same time, over time, radiation levels in the area quickly decrease: 7 hours after the explosion, the dose rate decreases by 10 times, after 49 hours - by 100 times. This means that this small area of pollution that is significant for health is also rapidly decreasing.”
[Hot Air] Everyone has long since recognized what an utter disaster the American withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 turned out to be. It wasn't only the deaths of American and allied service members, the bodies falling from planes at Kabul airport, and the desperation of the more Westernized Afghan people as the Taliban approached. The previous system collapsed in a way that sent shockwaves through the region and proved destabilizing far beyond the borders of that country. But how could Joe Biden have known all of this? Many (including myself) were ready for the war to be over and he had promised to make that happen.
Was there some way that the situation might have been resolved differently? As it turns out, there was. And Biden had been made aware of all of this. He didn't hear it from pundits or policy analysts. During recent testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Retired General Austin Scott Miller, who had been in charge of our Afghanistan forces at the time, told Congress that he had specifically warned the President what would happen if the pullout was conducted as it was being planned. He was ignored and the results speak for themselves. (Daily Caller)
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Denis Davydov
[REGNUM] “It is extremely risky to raise the topic of Zelensky’s legitimacy today. It’s better not to pump up this topic, because it’s banal playing along with the enemy,” this is the routine message sent out from the President’s Office to be dispersed throughout the Ukrainian media. And European officials are hastening to declare that they have no problems with the powers of the Ukrainian Fuhrer, which expired on May 21 - in their eyes, he is still legitimate.
[JPost] October 7 deeply impacted Egypt, however, Cairo has not appeared to excoriate Hamas for the attack, leaving questions about how this all transpired.
As the IDF pushes deeper into Rafah they are finding tunnels and dismantling Hamas terrorist infrastructure. The offensive in Rafah was opposed by Egypt before it happened, however there have been less statements since it actually began. There remains a lack of clarity about Egypt’s overall position today and also what may have transpired in the years leading up to October 7.
It's important to begin the process of understanding how Hamas became so powerful prior to the October 7 attack. How did it stockpile so many weapons? Where did the weapons come from? Hamas manufactures many types of rockets locally, but it also acquired RPGs and other types of systems that appear to have been trafficked from abroad.
In the past Hamas smuggled weapons using tunnels in Rafah that went to Egypt. It was widely believed these tunnels were dismantled years ago. There is also a crossing between Egypt and Gaza called the Rafah crossing. Ostensibly this was only for approved types of aid entering Gaza. Israel maintained a blockade of Gaza for many years to prevent weapons entering. However, weapons did enter. In fact, Gaza may have been one of the most heavily armed places per capita in the world on October 6. If it was under blockade, how did this happen.
EGYPT'S ROLE
There are going to be a lot of questions asked in coming months about Egypt’s role here. Egypt and Israel appeared to have relatively warm ties prior to October 7. Egypt’s government is opposed to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas has origins in the Brotherhood. Egypt also opposes terrorism. Therefore many would have concluded that Egypt opposes Hamas. However, it is less clear now what Egypt’s role has been.
.., The Abraham Accords and the Negev Summit and other trends in the region were supposed to be toward regional stability. This meant Egypt was supposed to benefit through peace and stability. Why would it allow Hamas to start a huge war? The only reason Egypt may have been lured into thinking Hamas was contained was due to Doha and Ankara, and other moves in the region. Egypt may have been told to go soft on Hamas and in exchange Turkey and Doha and others wouldn’t back the Brotherhood anymore inside Egypt.
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Yada, yada, yada. The fact is that Gaza was full of weapons & war materials that they could not get except through Egypt.
Which, once again, shows that applying Western logic to Arab behavior is a fallacy.
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